The CITI (Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative) online program offers training courses for researchers using Animals, Human Subjects, or who need Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) certification. CITI certificates are generally accepted by NSF, NIH, many research labs and scientific publications as full or partial proof of training. If your research is funded, please be sure to follow the funder's requirements for IACUC training and mentoring programs.

Kenyon's CITI subscription allows any Kenyon College student or employee to take any or all courses offered.

Instructions

Once you have registered at the CITIsite, you will be asked to select your curriculum. This will lead you to a listing of 6 questions. The first two questions are for Human Subjects courses, the third is for the RCR course, and 4 and 5 deal with the Animal courses. There are four basic Animal courses depending on your role in the research.

Kenyon's CITI Animal Course selections are:

... questions 1-3 and 6 are not relevant for IACUC training...

Question 4

Animal course

Please make your selection below to receive one of the courses in the IACUC Research.Choose all that apply:

Researchers Animal Technicians/Caretakers IACUC Members and IACUC Staff Students Working with Animals Not at this time, Thank you.

Question 5

Refresher Course

Please make your selection below if you have already completed the basic Animal course, you will enroll in to one of the Lab Animal Refresher course. Choose all that apply:

Researchers Animal Technicians/Caretakers IACUC Members and IACUC Staff Students Working with Animals Not at this time, Thank you.

Each course consists of a number of required and elective modules. You may complete one module and quiz at a time. You do not have to complete the entire course in one sitting. There are no time limits. If you are not happy with a score on a module, you may repeat the module.

Once you complete a course, you may go back in at any time and:

review a course module

add any elective module

take an additional course

print out a certificate

If you are a researcher/teacher/IACUC Chair and need to know if a researcher, research team member, technician has completed a course, you may contact Kenyon's CITI course administrator, Jami Peelle.

OLAW

The Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW) provides guidance and interpretation of the Public Health Service (PHS) Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, supports educational programs, and monitors compliance with the Policy by Assured institutions and PHS funding components to ensure the humane care and use of animals in PHS-supported research, testing, and training, thereby contributing to the quality of PHS-supported activities.

Guidelines for the Use of Fishes in Research Use of Fishes in Research Committee (joint committee of the American Fisheries Society, the American Institute of Fishery Research Biologists, and the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists). 2014. Guidelines for the use of fishes in research. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland. PDF